Michigan

Whitehall native Tony Jasick was hired Thursday to take over as the men's basketball coach at Jacksonville. He spent the last three seasons as the head coach at Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne.
(The Associated Press)

MUSKEGON, MI – Whitehall graduate Tony Jasick has made a move in the coaching ranks of college basketball.

Jasick, a 1996 graduate of Whitehall, left his position as head coach at Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne after a 25-win season to take over as the new coach at Jacksonville University in Florida, it was announced Thursday.

Jasick, 36, signed a five-year contract with Jacksonville, which plays in the Atlantic Sun Conference. He replaces Cliff Warren, whose team went 12-18.

Jasick had been the head coach at IPFW the past three seasons and had a record of 52-47. This year’s team went 25-11 and won a game in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament.

He was recently named the Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year by CollegeInsider.com as the top Division I mid-major coach in college basketball. The award is named after Durham, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball history and a former head coach at Jacksonville.

Jacksonville was the NCAA runner-up in 1970 with Artis Gilmore and last played in the NCAA tournament in 1986.

Jasick was a point guard at Whitehall and also played at Muskegon Community College. He is a 2000 graduate of Mars Hills College and also had coaching stops on staffs at Middle Tennessee State, Newberry College and North Alabama before joining IPFW in 2005.